Don Ady: "Some Caucasians from outlying islands were evacuated soon after the war started, by the police. Two former neighbours of mine remained on Cheung Chau, I suppose, because they had refused to leave. Miss Marion Potter, who was British, lived across the dusty road from us (House 14) off on a small headland (possibly House 15?).
She was a sweet old lady, always courteous but lived a lonely life. It was due to the seventeen cats that she kept - they made such a powerful odour of scat, that it stung the eyes in the face of the sea breeze, and may as well have been a moat full of crocodiles. Miss Potter had an almost regal courtesy extended to even little children such as myself in those days.
She had formerly been a schoolteacher. She died in Stanley Camp in 1943, aged eighty-one and was one of the oldest internees in camp if not the oldest."
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Marion Potter
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Cheung Chau Island Evacuees (1941)
Regarding Cheung Chau Island Evacuees (1941):
Don Ady: "Some Caucasians from outlying islands were evacuated soon after the war started, by the police. Two former neighbours of mine remained on Cheung Chau, I suppose, because they had refused to leave. Miss Marion Potter, who was British, lived across the dusty road from us (House 14) off on a small headland (possibly House 15?).
She was a sweet old lady, always courteous but lived a lonely life. It was due to the seventeen cats that she kept - they made such a powerful odour of scat, that it stung the eyes in the face of the sea breeze, and may as well have been a moat full of crocodiles. Miss Potter had an almost regal courtesy extended to even little children such as myself in those days.
She had formerly been a schoolteacher. She died in Stanley Camp in 1943, aged eighty-one and was one of the oldest internees in camp if not the oldest."
From the link above.